Posti.ca is an online sticky note app that allows for minimal collaboration, and enables all around organization. I am a gigantic fan of Post-its, and I firmly believe they are the best invention in over 100 years- screw the CPU or the Internet. Furthermore, sticky notes have been in the digital world ever since computers could display colors...and people use them. I've used them, I know many people who rely on them to keep themselves organized.
But the essence of a sticky note is one of mobility, easy accessibility and rapid organization. For some, this idea translates quite nicely onto a PC, and it is for those people that I would recommend the use of Posti.ca- a place to create and house online sticky notes.
Sign-up is quick, no verification required. When you login, you're presented with the opportunity to create your first sticky. There's a 140 character max to any note, which makes me smile, because personally I believe that notes and tasks, should be short and concise. There's also a standard color selector, and a bonus of uploading a little file. Then the collaborative aspects are brought into view by typing in a person's email address to share the note with.
After creation, you see a visual representation of the note, which you can -in proper Web 2.0 AJAX fashion- move and place anywhere within the massive amount of whitespace on the Posti.ca homepage.
A nifty little feature for those who tweet is the ability to send messages to "Postica" on twitter and have it post as a new note directly onto your dashboard of notes in Posti.ca. It's really easy to set up- just enter in your Twitter username in the Posti.ca settings and then find the Twitter user "Postica" and send them a message and presto- the note appears on your Posti.ca dashboard with all of your other glorious stickies.
Now, how useful is that? Unless you have the message page book marked, or have the clip set up as a dashboard widget in Leopard, I think this feature is an extra step that tries too hard (and kind of fails) at getting added functionality.
| Does the app fulfill its intended purpose? | 7 |
| How clean and simplistic is the UI? | 8 |
| Is the app forward thinking and innovative? | 5 |
| How re-usable is the app? | 6 |
| Overall | 6.5 |
I see room to improve in this app. There's lots of semi-great functionality that allows Twitterers to update from virtually anywhere, but in order for Posti.ca to meet the same functionality of a pad of Post-its, they need to expand the number of ways that you can post stickies even more. I don't see myself using this in the near future, as I have explained before in previous posts that I am rather analog when it comes to to-do lists and task maintenance. But for people who use the Mac program Stickies or whatever the Windows equivalent is, seriously consider converting those to Posti.ca, it'll make you're life just a tad bit easier.
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